Roald Hoffmann

66.9k citations
702 papers · 55.4k · 54 hit papers · h-index 119

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Papers in

    • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis 75
    • Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry 45
    • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds 41

Roald Hoffmann

696 papers receiving 52.8k citations

Roald Hoffmann's Hit Papers

Do Diradicals Behave Like Radicals? 2019 · 312 citations
3120+15+31Years since publication2505007501000

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Roald Hoffmann
Comparison fields: 5 of 185
  • Inorganic Chemistry 15.2k
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry 8.1k
  • Organic Chemistry 24.5k
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 9.0k
  • Catalysis 2.9k
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The Conservation of Orbital Symmetry
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19693255
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Interaction of orbitals through space and through bonds
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19711220
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Orbital interactions in metal dimer complexes
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19751164
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Die Erhaltung der Orbitalsymmetrie
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19691129
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Stereochemistry of Electrocyclic Reactions
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19651063
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Building Bridges Between Inorganic and Organic Chemistry (Nobel Lecture)
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19821019
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Structure and chemistry of bis(cyclopentadienyl)-MLn complexes
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1976962
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Theory of Polyhedral Molecules. I. Physical Factorizations of the Secular Equation
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1962818
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The band structure of the tetracyanoplatinate chain
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1978788
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Potential high- T c superconducting lanthanum and yttrium hydrides at high pressure
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2017746
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A chemical and theoretical way to look at bonding on surfaces
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1988696
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Benzynes, dehydroconjugated molecules, and the interaction of orbitals separated by a number of intervening sigma bonds
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1968596
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What Do the Kohn−Sham Orbitals and Eigenvalues Mean?
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1999591
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Transition metal pentacoordination
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1975570
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Planar tetracoordinate carbon
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1970550
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How Chemistry and Physics Meet in the Solid State
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1987531
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Conservation of orbital symmetry
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1968503
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Carbon-hydrogen and hydrogen-hydrogen activation in transition metal complexes and on surfaces
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1984476
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Bonding capabilities of transition metal carbonyl fragments
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1975435
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Copper(I)-copper(I) interactions. Bonding relationships in d10-d10 systems
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1978427

About Roald Hoffmann

Roald Hoffmann is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, having authored 702 papers that have together received 55.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (128 papers), Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (75 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (74 papers), Inorganic Chemistry and Materials (72 papers), History and advancements in chemistry (53 papers), Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry (45 papers), Crystallography and molecular interactions (42 papers) and Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (41 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Inorganic Chemistry (15.2k citations), Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (8.1k citations), Organic Chemistry (24.5k citations), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (9.0k citations) and Catalysis (2.9k citations). Roald Hoffmann has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Frequent co-authors include R. B. Woodward, N. W. Ashcroft, William N. Lipscomb, Myung‐Hwan Whangbo, Joseph W. Lauher, Jack C. Thibeault, Thomas A. Albright, Timothy Hughbanks, Angelo R. Rossi and P. Jeffrey Hay. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Inorganic Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, The Journal of Chemical Physics and The Journal of Physical Chemistry.

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